Nobody tells homeowners what pour week actually looks like, so the mess comes as a surprise. Here's the honest preview — because a surprised customer is a failure of communication, not concrete.
Before we start
At the sit-down we map the route equipment takes through your yard, what gate it fits through, and what's in the way. You'll know exactly which strip of grass is going to have a rough week. Pets stay in, vehicles move, and anything private buried along the route — irrigation lines, low-voltage lighting, buried power to a shed — gets marked.
Days 1–2: excavation and prep
The loudest, muddiest stretch. Topsoil and roots come out, grade gets cut, and compacted stone base goes in. The yard along the equipment path will look bruised — that's temporary and normal. This is also when the most important work of the whole project happens: the base.
The pre-pour checkpoint
Before any concrete truck is scheduled, Bradley inspects the base and the tied rebar, photographs it, and texts it to your phone. If you have questions, this is the moment — everything in that photo disappears under gray the next day.
Pour day
The truck arrives, the crew works fast and steady, and by afternoon there's a patio where the dirt was. The owner is on site the whole pour. You'll get your daily photo by 5pm like every other work day.
The cure: patience week
Concrete gains strength over days. Foot traffic comes back first, furniture later — we give you the exact numbers for your slab and weather. Walking on it early won't collapse anything, but dragging iron chairs across a young surface is how brand-new patios get scarred.
The walk-around
Before we leave for good, we do a final walk-around together. Edges, joints, cleanup, the works — and you keep every photo from the whole job, including the ones of what's underneath.
